In The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America, journalist Ellis Cose examines how one of the most essential rights in America – free speech – is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money, and systematized lying. He’s joined by ACLU of Florida executive director Dr. Micah W. Kubic, a […]
For the first time in human memory, early death is now the exception rather than the rule. Perri Klass’ A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future celebrates the doctors, nurses, public health advocates, and scientists who brought new approaches and scientific ideas that made it happen. She’s […]
Special introduction by Natalie Satakovski, 2020 Gulf Stream Literary Magazine editor-in-chief. Gulf Stream Literary Magazine champions vibrant and eclectic literature and art. Based in Miami, it publishes emerging and established writers from the USA and beyond. Join contributors Melissa Goode, whose work has also appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly and Best Australian Short Stories; Sara McNally, […]
Live Q&A on Tuesday, November 17 at 9 p.m. The Baddest Bitch in the Room is Sophia Chang's memoir of her career in the music business, working with such acts as Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest, but also her candid accounts of marriage, motherhood, aging, marginalization, and martial arts. Fearless and unpredictable, Sophia Chang prevailed in […]
In Farmer, Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, Dr. Paul Farmer shares his firsthand experience with the worst Ebola outbreak ever experienced, a substantive account of a frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. He’s speaking with fellow physician-writer Daniela Lamas, author of You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of […]
Moderated by Joan Hilty, editorial director at Nickelodeon. Join Sophie Yanow (The Contradictions), Mike Hawthorne (Happiness Will Follow), and Kiku Hughes (Displacement) as they discuss stories that tackle the hard truths. Using the perceptive lenses of memory and time, they focus on what's really at the bottom of a lingering sense of displacement in what […]
Event starts Tuesday, November 17 @ 7 p.m. EST Part satiric comic strip storytelling, part academic lecture, “Red, White, Black and Blue: Highlighting America’s Racial Illiteracy” is a culmination of 25 years of Keith Knight's finest sociopolitical cartoons highlighting America's racial inequality. Join him for this interactive slideshow and follow along as he makes the […]
Event starts Tuesday, November 17 @ 6 p.m. EST In Just Us: An American Conversation, Claudia Rankine looks at what it takes to stay in the room together, breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. The Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University – also the author of six […]
Published this past March to critical acclaim, Gerald Posner’s PHARMA: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America is the first investigative history of how a handful of chemical companies morphed from morphine production during the Civil War to today’s trillion dollar a year pharmaceutical industry. Along the way, Posner explores those responsible for the lethal […]
Peter Alson's The Only Way To Play It tells the story of Nathan Fischer, a struggling 30-year-old painter who is supporting his wife and young daughter by playing poker in the cutthroat underground clubs of New York City, trying to weather the vagaries of luck that afflict card players and artists alike. In David Michaelis’ biography Eleanor, the […]
Brimming with glossy color photographs, Embellished celebrates the vision and artistry of Indian American fashion designer Naeem Khan – who has dressed Jennifer Lopez, Kate Hudson, and Michelle Obama – and his impossibly chic world, the history of which is told through sought-after red-carpet dresses, elegant bridal gowns, and beautifully beaded and embroidered statement pieces […]
In Aren't You Forgetting Someone?: Essays from My Mid-Life Revenge, TV comedy writer Kari Lizer – creator of the award-winning TV show The New Adventures of Old Christine – offers a collection of essays about the challenges of being a woman of a certain age and all that comes with it, including unrealistic expectations and […]